Antarctica

An Antarctic penguin’s misadventure has seen it waddle ashore almost 2,000 miles from home. The Adélie penguin, which is native to Antarctica, washed up on the coast of New Zealand on Wednesday. The rare visitor was spotted by resident Harry Singh, just south of Christchurch in Birdlings Flat on the…

The North Face reintroduces the famous Trans-Antarctica Collection The North Face has reintroduced its famed Trans-Antarctica collection for 2021. Debuted over 30 years ago, the Trans-Antarctica collection remains one of the most recognisable and sought after lines in The North Face’s history. Originally designed to outfit a team of explorers…

Home News Science & Astronomy A new NASA video highlights the giant ozone hole that opened over Antarctica this year. A cold Southern Hemisphere winter, and possible effects of global warming, have caused the hole to grow to its 13th-largest extent since 1979. The ozone depletion you see in the…

Fossilized charcoal shows once-temperate Antarctica was often hit by wildfires, report says... (Third column, 16th story, link...Read More

Home News The Endurance against a pale Antarctic sky, stuck in the pack ice. Shackleton's voyage went down in history as being uniquely disastrous and surprisingly successful all at once. Despite losing the ship and enduring almost unthinkable conditions, the crew all escaped Antarctica with their lives. (Image credit: Stuart…

Home News Dinosaurs attempt to flee a wildfire on Antarctica during the late Cretaceous. (Image credit: Illustration by Maurilio Oliveira; De Lima, F.J. et al. Polar Research (2021); CC BY 4.0)Raging wildfires tore through Antarctica 75 million years ago, back when dinosaurs still roamed the Earth, a new study finds.…

A mammoth potential of 500 billion barrels in hydrocarbon “resources” — the building blocks for oil and gas — might be buried in supergiant oilfields beneath the Southern Ocean, the climate-threatened waters that wrap around Antarctica, according to Russian state entities.  Key points There are 500 billion barrels of Southern…

In what could sound like a science fiction movie plot, scientists from the Planetary Habitability and Technology Lab, which is relocating from Georgia Tech to Cornell, will be conducting an under-Antarctic-ice robotic survey in February 2022. The team will use an unmanned underwater vehicle called Icefin to explore under the…

Valkyrie Racing has turned to Tuthill Porsche to transform its 356A into a snow-bashing beast Philanthropist Renee Brinkerhoff has been busy racking up close to 20,000 over six continents in a plucky Porsche 356A under the guise of ‘Valkyrie Racing’ in recent years. The endeavour is all about a non-profit…

Supplied Southern Lakes Helicopters Te Anau pilot Andrew Hefford helps load the company’s squirrel helicopter onto a US Airforce Boeing C17 Globemaster in Christchurch on October 11. The helicopter, pilot and an engineer were flown to Antarctica where they will fly scientists around the continent. Southland helicopter pilots will resume…